EHRLICH'S "SALVARSAN."

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1878, 11 October 1913, Page 5

EHRLICH'S "SALVARSAN."

FATAL EFFECT IN ANTHRAX PATIENT. Br Tcloyraph—Press Assoolatlon—OopttSsM "Times"—-Sydney "Sun" Special Cables. London, October 9. At an inquest at Bradford on the body of a wool sorter, who had contracted anthrax and had been given an injection of salvarsan, Professor Wilholm Eurich, Bacteriologist to the Bradford Anthrax Investigation Board, gavo evidence that death was due to salvarsan poisoning, consequent on the kidneys being unable to pass off the salvarsan after tho killing of tho anthrax bacilli.

Professor Paul Ehrlioh'a famous drug. salvaTsan, was described by* its inventor at tho International Medical Congress held In London in August last. In a disease which for years had been the scourge of tho tropics, single injections had cured 300 patients, and the same results had been obtained in tho caso of recurring foyers and forms of malaria. Tlie majority of the speakers testified to tfhe efficiency of the salvaTsan treatment for venereal diseases. Colonel Gibbard. referring to the introduction of tho salvaraan treatment into the British Army, stated that its use annually saved the ijtato the cost of tho hospital treatment for whole battalions of infantry.